Clean sweep needed

Paulson's warm approval of GOP Gov. Mitch Daniel's comments about President Obama's "trickle- own government" seemed odd since it was Ronald Reagan's "trickle-down" voodoo economics that greatly enriched a very few people while bankrupting the entire middle class and emptying the Treasury.

Paulson's offer of a government that stays strictly out of the way of corporate business means that we need to let them do anything they want so they won't ship their profits overseas, right? Oh, wait, those profits already are overseas in hidden bank accounts, aren't they?

The government that extended massive handouts and ran a huge surplus into trillions in debt was the GOP Bush administration. It was the GOP's ruthless pursuit of profits at any cost that sent at least 12 million Americans to the breadlines so the privileged coterie could have more and more caviar and pork and gravy at the public's expense.

It's funny how Democrat administrations leave strong economies, tight regulations on businesses' behavior and nice fiscal surpluses. What do we get with GOP administrations? Check the record - massive corruption, rampant pollution, and mind-blowing debts and deficits, all to benefit a tiny handful of cronies.

Closing his piece with a quote from New Gingrich nattering on about "jobs" was the epitome of gall. It's time to sweep state and federal government clear of the GOP, once and for all ending their unwholesome influence-peddling, backroom deals, recently revealed insider trading and land deals, and two-faced, stinking hypocrisy about so-called "morals" and "family values."